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Definition of psychosis in English:

psychosis

noun

A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

‘Investigators in Europe and North America suggested that children whose parents did not visit them suffered acute emotional trauma, which often caused neuroses and psychoses in youth and adulthood.’

‘Chronic use of GHB may produce dependence and a withdrawal syndrome that includes anxiety, insomnia, tremor, and in severe cases, treatment-resistant psychoses.’

‘Celebrities, too, are prone to ‘nervous exhaustion’ - doubtless the result of having to work so much harder than the rest of us - rather than drug-induced depressions, panic disorders or psychoses.’

‘When high levels of L-dopa were used to treat Parkinson's Disease type symptoms (immortalised in the film, ‘Awakenings’), the individuals concerned developed acute paranoid psychoses.’

‘Fluphenazine is a member of the phenothiazine drug family and is often used in the treatment of various psychoses, mainly schizophrenia and paranoid syndromes.’

‘Thus the significant differences between LSD and schizophrenic psychoses appear to be in the affective nature of LSD psychosis and the greater incidence of delusions and auditory hallucinations in schizophrenics.’

‘The authors emphasize that acute transient psychosis occurs far more frequently in developing countries and that these do not fit into the traditional subdivision of psychoses into schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness.’

‘Identification of these processes may also uncover mechanisms of cognitive impairment, with implications not only for AD but also for idiopathic psychoses.’

‘While 1% of patients with epilepsy admitted to the state hospital improved, 16.5% of those who developed acute psychoses remitted.’

‘How strong is the evidence that cannabis is causally implicated in the precipitation or exacerbation of schizophrenia and other psychoses?’

‘Brief reactive psychoses are of interest because some behaviors, otherwise considered normal in developing countries (such as trance or other dissociative-type disorders), overlap.’

‘And the number hospitalised with alcohol psychoses - delirium, shaking, or memory loss - has risen by more than a third since 1997-98.’